I've been doing the first and then the second -- though it did take me a while to find the second. It turns out that when it says "connect to itunes", it means "connect to itunes and then resume from there", rather than "connect to itunes and continue from the device's screen" *facepalm*
Not so intuitive an action when your device is already connected to itunes -- but it looks like being stuck at the connect to itunes step was unintuitive interface user error.
I'm currently restoring from backup, and I hope it will work! It just failed because I didn't have enough free space to backup the device on my laptop. It looks like itunes keeps the previous backup around while backing up the latest data, instead of overriding the old backup with the newer one at once -- which is good in principle, but screwed me over this once >_<
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Date: 2011-10-20 04:13 am (UTC)Not so intuitive an action when your device is already connected to itunes -- but it looks like being stuck at the connect to itunes step was
unintuitive interfaceuser error.I'm currently restoring from backup, and I hope it will work! It just failed because I didn't have enough free space to backup the device on my laptop. It looks like itunes keeps the previous backup around while backing up the latest data, instead of overriding the old backup with the newer one at once -- which is good in principle, but screwed me over this once >_<